5 EYE, AND Mr. CAMERON ORTIS
CANADA
: A SAFE HAVEN FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINALS??
INDIA FALSELY IMPLICATED??
SARASIJ MAJUMDER
The Canadian government sought 30 years’ imprisonment for
one of their own-- Cameron Ortis—a former director-ranked official with the
National Intelligence Coordination Unit of RCMP—who in 2023 was found guilty of
leaking secret information to members of an international terror network. Royal
Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of Canada is equivalent to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) of the United States. The state prosecutor, Judy Kliewer,
while seeking the prison sentence for Ortis, told in Ottawa courtroom that “His
conduct betrayed the RCMP. It also betrayed the Five Eyes alliance.” As per the
case documents, Ortis emerged as a central figure in the Altaf Khanani criminal
network.
1.
Khanani, a Pakistani national, has been on the
radar of the US agencies since at least 2008 for laundering illicit funds for
organized crime and feeding terrorist outfits, including Al Qaeda and the
Taliban. In September 2014, the Five Eyes alliance—an intelligence sharing
network made up of the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand—identified
Khanani as a common threat and decided to work together to take him down. As a
part of their investigation, the Canadian authorities, in which Ortis was a
central figure, launched “Project Oryx” to investigate the agents of Khanani
who were active in Canada. At least three businessmen were identified in this
secret operation—Salim Henare, Muhammad Ashraf and Farzam Mehdizadeh.
2.
However, later it emerged that Ortis, who was
arrested in September 2019 by his own colleagues, was sharing all operational
information with the same people the Five Eyes was investigating and had tried
to directly contact Khanani to sell this top-secret information related to the
investigation. The Canadian government was forced to take a tough stand in this
matter as Ortis’ conduct was fast becoming a public knowledge and the local
media was already on it, thereby erasing the possibility of removing the matter
from the public eye. Canada is good at putting it’s sins under the carpet. This
time—it was not possible.
3. The
Ortis trial, brought out the mind-boggling revelations that are more sinister
than a spy movie where double cross is the norm, and his conviction have raised
multiple questions on the functioning of the RCMP and that of the “Five Eyes”.
Concerns in relevant quarters are being raised on how credible and unbiased are
the inputs and information that the members of this halo intelligence setup
share among themselves through this platform which is then used to level
allegations against non-member countries. Last year in September, the US ambassador to Canada,
David Cohen had claimed that “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners” had
alleged the involvement of Indian agents in the killing of Khalistan separatist
Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar, a designated terrorist under Indian law, was
gunned down outside a gurdwara in
Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver, in June.
4. Neither
the US government nor the Canadian government has released any information to
substantiate their claim of Nijjar being killed under the direction of Delhi.
As per relevant offices in Delhi, Nijjar, a “loud” and “divisive” Sikh figure,
who used his clout to violent groups to settle matters and business, was likely
killed in gang violence or as a retribution for a business deal that he
undertook. In wake of the
revelations that have emerged in the Ortis case, officials in Delhi say, it is
quite possible that “tampered” and “biased” evidence was generated and shared
by Canadian officials with their partner members that implicated India in the
Nijjar killing.
5.
The fact that Canadian offices were heavily
influenced by criminal networks, especially those with links to Pakistan’s deep
state, has been brought out in public domain multiple times in the recent past
in studies and investigation done by international agencies. It is an open
secret that at least 30 top ranking former Pakistani army officials are now
settled in different parts of Canada and using their presence to influence the
policies being drafted by Ottawa. In a recently released report by the International
Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE), a national security-centric NGO
based in Washington DC, titled, “The Growing Harms of Cross Border Illicit
Trade Vectors and Threat Convergence to Canada’s National Security”, Canada has
become a “safe haven” and international hub for notorious crime groups as
illicit trade in the country is “booming”.
6.
“Canada has become a safe haven for the world’s
most notorious crime groups and threat networks that are harming Canada’s
national security and imperilling the security of other nations,” the report
warned. According to its findings, “Canada remains a financial haven for
kingpins, kleptocrats, oligarchs, and corrupt officials to reinvest stolen
funds from their countries in real estate, energy, mining, and other sectors of
CANADA.”
7.
While stating that tens of billions of dollars
are being laundered through Canada annually from the proceeds of crime such as
human, drug and weapons trafficking, according to the authors, multinational
crime syndicates are increasingly setting up shop in Canada. “Canada has become
a major global refuge for transnational crime networks and their dirty money,
including the world’s most notorious networks and their leaders like Joaquín
‘El Chapo’ Guzmán and the Sinaloa cartel, Chinese drug kingpin Tso Chi Lop,
Hezbollah Financier Altaf Khanani, and other bad actors.”
8.
Similarly, in a finding on the same subject by
one of Canada’s own government agencies, Criminal Intelligence Service Canada
(CISC), which coordinates and shares criminal intelligence amongst member
police forces, organised crime and gang violence in Canada, have reached
unprecedented levels during the second term of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
who assumed office in November 2015.
9.
According to data compiled by CISC, at least
3,000 criminal gangs are operating in Canada, out of which some are so powerful
that they have been classified into three threat levels. As per the data, 14 of
these gangs have been classified as National Level Threat and the crime they
commit includes infiltrating police and security. agencies. The failure of
Canada to tackle these gangs have brought problems for the law-and-order
machinery in other countries too as these gangs have established links in 52 other
countries spanning across North America, Central America, Caribbean, Asia,
South America, Europe, Africa and Australia.
India, as reported by The Sunday Guardian earlier (US and
Canada safe havens for declared terror sympathisers, 24 December), has already
informed both the US and Canadian officials about the evidence that it has
collected which shows how a few intelligence officials of these two countries
are promoting and supporting Khalistani groups and terrorists.
SOURCES: I have pieced together from multiple sources.
Some are listed below as thread.
1.0 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cameron-ortis-leaks-intelligence-espionage-rcmp-1.7030802
2.0 https://policinginsight.com/media-monitoring/crown-wants-28-year-sentence-for-cameron-ortis-ex-rcmp-intelligence-official-guilty-of-leaking-secrets/
3.0 https://www.theguardian.com/uk
4.0 Dainik Bhaskar
3.0 There are many YOU TUBE VDOS on this.
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